Aggregate to Adapt: Node-Centric Aggregation for Multi-Source-Free Graph Domain Adaptation

Zhen Zhang, Bingsheng He

Track: Graph algorithms and modeling for the Web

Keywords: Graph Neural Networks, Graph Domain Adaptation, Unsupervised Learning

TL;DR: We propose a node-centric adaptation framework that parameterizes each node with a personalized graph convolutional matrix according to its local context information for multi-source-free graph domain adaptation.

Abstract: Unsupervised graph domain adaptation (UGDA) focuses on transferring knowledge from labeled source graph to unlabeled target graph under domain discrepancies. Most existing UGDA methods are designed to adapt information from a single source domain, which cannot effectively exploit the complementary knowledge from multiple source domains. Furthermore, their assumptions that the labeled source graphs are accessible throughout the training procedure might not be practical due to privacy, regulation, and storage concerns. In this paper, we investigate multi-source-free unsupervised graph domain adaptation, i.e., exploring knowledge adaptation from multiple source domains to the unlabeled target domain without utilizing labeled source graphs but relying solely on source pre-trained models. Unlike previous multi-source domain adaptation approaches that aggregate predictions at model level, we introduce a novel model named GraphATA which conducts adaptation at node granularity. Specifically, we parameterize each node with its own graph convolutional matrix by automatically aggregating weight matrices from multiple source models according to its local context, thus realizing dynamic adaptation over graph structured data. We also demonstrate the capability of GraphATA to generalize to both model-centric and layer-centric methods. Comprehensive experiments on various public datasets show that our GraphATA can consistently surpass recent state-of-the-art baselines with different gains. Our source codes and datasets are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GraphATA-C0D8.

Submission Number: 1397